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hefte
at Sun Jun 12 02:16:32 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by hefte ]
I have a JCP that won't take rats either. I have fed chicks, ten at time but never anything larger than that. There are two real problems with feeding fowl. First, they get hooked, it is pretty common for them to not take another rodent again. I learned this the hard way. I know some guys from Austrailia who say that once a carpet gets into a chicken coop, they will never go away, a lot of them are actually killed because of this. The other is fowl have hollow bones. Some people believe that they are more dangerous to feed to a snake. The bones are much more likely to break and puncture something vital. There's a picture that was going around a couple years ago of a Scrub with a chicken bone sticking out of it. It healed with no real problems but I guess the threat is still there. I stopped feeding fowl personally, they stink, they're loud, and they're harder to kill than rodents. My JCP is just at 8ft and 4 years old, she takes about twenty mice every ten days to two weeks. I've given up on trying anything else, I just kill them all and she eats them like a dog out of a bowl. Good luck, Eric-
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RE: Anyone feed fowl to carpets? - hefte, Sun Jun 12 02:16:32 2005